What is CVE-2018-15181?

CVE-2018-15181 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jio 4g Hotspot M2s, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-09.

How severe is CVE-2018-15181?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

XSS in Jio 4g Hotspot M2s

CVE-2018-15181

JioFi 4G Hotspot M2S devices allow attackers to cause a denial of service (secure configuration outage) via an XSS payload in the SSID name and Security Key fields.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-08-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.053 (92.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.053 · newest: 0.053 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45199/ (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit)
gkaim.com/cve-2018-15181-vikas-chaudhary/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15181?: CVE-2018-15181 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jio 4g Hotspot M2s, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-09.
How severe is CVE-2018-15181?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.